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DATE OF CLASS MEETING |
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Monday, January 12 |
Introduction to course |
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Wednesday, January 14 |
Chapter 1 The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Israel |
Hause pp. 1-22. Tierney pp. 3-29. Web The Enuma Elish The Story of the Flood Genesis 6-9 Accounts of the Campaign of Sennacherib 701 BC |
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Friday, January 16 |
Chapter 1 Continued |
Web The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep |
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Monday, January 19 |
Chapter 1 Continued |
Web II Kings 22:1-23:29 Ezekiel 23 Ruth 1 (compare with Deuteronomy 23:1-6 and Nehemiah 13:1-3) Isaiah 45 |
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Wednesday, January 21 |
Chapter 1 Continued |
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Friday, January 23 |
Chapter 1 Continued |
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LAST DAY TO DROP/ADD CLASSES ****************** EMAIL ME BEFORE TODAY! |
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Monday, January 26 |
Chapter 2 Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian War |
Hause pp. 23-59. Tierney pp. 31-91. Web Homer-Illiad Books I and XXII |
QUIZ I (Chapter 1) |
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Wednesday, January 28 |
Chapter 2 Continued |
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Aristotle-The
Polis |
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Friday, January 30 |
Chapter 2 Continued |
Web Sophocles-Oedipus the King |
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Monday, February 2 |
Chapter 3 Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion |
Tierney pp. 93-101. Web Aristotle-The Poetics |
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Wednesday, February 4 |
Chapter 3 Continued |
Web
Alexander-Speech to Soldiers Cleanthes-Prayer to Zeus |
PAPER TOPIC DUE |
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Friday, February 6 |
Chapter 3 Continued |
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Monday, February 9 |
Chapter 4 Rise of Roman Republic |
Hause pp. 60-99. Tierney pp. 101-110.
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Quintus Cicero-The Roman Candidate |
QUIZ II (Chapter 2-3) |
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Wednesday, February 11 |
Chapter 5 Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome |
Tierney pp. 111-123.
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Strabo-The Grandeur of
Rome |
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Friday, February 13 |
Chapters 4 and 5 Continued |
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Monday, February 16 |
Chapter 6 Origins of Christianity and the Decline of the Roman Empire |
Hause pp. 100-118. Tierney pp. 125-153.
Web
Matthew 5-7 |
QUIZ III (Chapter 4-5) |
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Wednesday, February 18 |
Chapter 6 Continued |
Web Diocletian and Constantine-Efforts to Stabilize the Economy and The Passion of Perpetua |
BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE SEE MLA FOR STYLE |
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Friday, February 20 |
Chapter 6 Continued |
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LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW WITH A “W” |
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Monday, February 23 |
Chapter 7 Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West |
Hause pp. 119-136. Tierney pp. 155-184. Web Liudprand of Cremona-Embassy to Constantinople |
QUIZ IV (Chapter 6) |
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Wednesday, February 25 |
NO CLASS MEETING: SFC WALK-A-THON |
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Friday, February 27 |
Chapter 7 Continued |
Web
Qu'ran-Surahs 1 and 47 |
QUIZ V (Chapter 7) |
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Monday, March 1 |
NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK |
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Wednesday, March 3 |
NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK |
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Friday, March 5 |
NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK |
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Monday, March 8 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION Bring examination book or buy one from instructor. |
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Wednesday, March 10 |
Chapter 8 The Beginnings of the Feudal Age |
Hause pp. 137-156. Tierney pp. 187-213. Web Einhard-Life of Charlemagne
Frederick II-Statute in Favor of the
Princes Urban II-Speech at Clermont |
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Friday, March 12 |
NO CLASS MEETING: UNPRECEDENTED PRAISE |
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Monday, March 15 |
Chapter 9 Medieval Religion and Thought |
Hause pp. 157-175. Tierney pp. 215-248. Web Adelard of Bath- The Impact of Muslim Science |
QUIZ VI (Chapter 8) |
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Wednesday, March 17 |
Chapter 10 Economic Development and Urban Growth in the High Middle Ages |
Hause pp. 176-213. Tierney pp. 251-284. |
QUIZ VII (Chapter 9) |
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Friday, March 19 |
Chapter 11 Material and Social Life in the Middle Ages |
Web
Jean de Venette-The Plague in Paris |
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Monday, March 22 |
Chapters 10 and 11 Continued |
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Wednesday, March 24 |
Chapter 12 Plague, War, and Social Change in the “Long” Fourteenth Century |
Hause pp. 214-252. |
QUIZ VIII (Chapter 10-11) |
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Friday, March 26 |
Chapter 13 The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change |
Tierney pp. 287-319. |
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Monday, March 29 |
Chapters 12 and 13 Continued |
Web
Petrarch-Letter to Posterity |
RESEARCH PAPER DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS |
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Wednesday, March 31 |
Chapter 14 The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century |
Hause pp. 253-271. Tierney pp. 321-352. |
QUIZ IX (Chapter 12-13) |
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Friday, April 2 |
Chapter 14 Continued |
Web Martin Luther-On the Freedom of a Christian |
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Monday, April 5 |
Chapter 14 Continued |
Web
Council of Trent-Decree on Justification
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LAST DAY TO DROP WITHOUT AN “F” |
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Wednesday, April 7 |
Chapter 15 Overseas Conquest and Religious War to 1648 |
Hause pp. 272-290. Tierney pp. 355-365. |
QUIZ X (Chapter 14) |
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Friday, April 9 |
NO CLASS MEETING: EASTER BREAK |
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Monday, April 12 |
NO CLASS MEETING: EASTER BREAK |
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Wednesday, April 14 |
Chapter 15 Continued |
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John of Monte Corvino-Report from China |
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Friday, April 16 |
Chapter 16 Preindustrial Europe: Science, the Economy, and Political Reorganization |
Hause pp. 291-308. Tierney pp. 365-380. Web Domat-On Divine Right Locke-Second Treatise on Government Galileo-Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany |
QUIZ XI (Chapter 15) |
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Monday, April 19 |
Chapter 16 Continued |
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Wednesday, April 21 |
Chapter 17 The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime |
Hause pp. 309-327. Tierney pp. 383-412. Web Rabelais-Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Use of a Goose |
QUIZ XII (Chapter 16) |
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Friday, April 23 |
Chapter 17 Continued |
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Monday, April 26 |
Chapter 18 Daily Life in the Old Regime |
Hause pp. 328-348. Tierney pp. 415-444. |
QUIZ XIII (Chapter 17) |
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Wednesday, April 28 |
NO CLASS MEETING: SCHOOL TRIP |
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Friday, April 30 |
General Review and Conclusion |
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QUIZ XIV (Chapter 18) ****************** LAST DAY TO TURN IN A LATE RESEARCH PAPER AND/OR MAKE UP EXAMINATIONS OR QUIZZES I HAVE MISSED DAY |
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Monday, May 3 |
FINAL EXAMINATION Bring examination book or buy one from instructor. ******************************************************** LAST DAY TO TAKE MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS OR QUIZZES |
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Wednesday, May 5 |
LAST DAY OF FINALS |
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Thursday, May 6 |
END OF YEAR BANQUET |
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Saturday, May 8 |
GRADUATION—10:00 AM |
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